Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Opening Banquet
Soon, the first-year students entered the auditorium through another entrance, and the Gryffindor cubs stopped laughing with Maple and sat back in their seats, and the auditorium quickly fell silent.
Seeing the first-year freshman enter the auditorium, Maple quickly glanced among them, but found only Ginny Weasley, a witch from the Weasley family who had spent most of the holidays, but not his sister Mary.
Perhaps he had just become a vampire and his magic had not yet reached the level of Hogwarts admission, and Maple did not find Mary among the new students who had entered the school, but he did not feel too lost, because he believed that with Dumbledore, Mary's safety would never be in any problem.
It's still the opening of the Sorting Hat's out-of-tune singing, but it's also the result of a year's hard work, and enduring it for a few minutes is the fruit of respect for the hat's labor.
Then I thought about it again, it has been almost a thousand years since this hat was injected into the mind by the Big Four, and as a centuries-old antique, it should not be easy for it to do this step!
Professor McGonagall recited the names of the freshmen, then took turns putting on the Sorting Hat, which chose which house each wizard to enter.
"Dol Alves!"
"Hufflepuff!"
The first to come up was a somewhat thin boy, and it didn't take long for the hat to assign him to Hufflepuff, and the strange college students immediately applauded him.
The sorting house proceeded in an orderly manner, and Maple noticed another freshman in addition to Ginny Weasley.
Ginny Weasley had a particularly conspicuous red hair, and even if she hadn't been to the Weasley house, Maple could easily notice her. The other girl, despite her extremely delicate appearance, noticed her not because of her looks, but because of the color of her skin. Her skin was so white that it didn't look like a normal complexion, but this sickly fair color on her body, paler than the skin of the group of vampires that Maple had killed. When people take a look, they can't help but want to ask her-
"Did you take your medicine today?"
"If you don't eat it, go to the doctor quickly, the medicine can't be stopped!"
The witch, Celia Doraks, kept the Sorting Hat tangled up for a while before finally putting her in Ravenclaw.
"Recy Clan!"
"What? How could a wizard learn that magic immediately after watching someone cast a spell? Is there a wizard at Hogwarts who is so gifted, how did I never find out? ”
Raese was immediately startled when she heard the hat talking to herself, she didn't expect the Sorting Hat to read her mind directly.
She was a year older than Maple Harry and the others, but her mother suddenly asked her to transfer to Hogwarts to find a wizard with a particularly gifted talent.
But her mother didn't have the wizard's name or appearance, only that he could learn the spell immediately after seeing someone cast a spell, and that he also had a powerful ice shield defense magic. In addition to this, he is also a junior student who has mastered apparition.
"Good luck, Reesie, I want to know who such a good wizard is." Recy Crane breathed a sigh of relief to hear that the hat didn't blame her for her ulterior motives.
"Most of Hogwarts' clever wizards are in Ravenclaw. But the wizard who has the courage to go to Tumbledown Alley to adventure, but with a strong Gryffindor style, you want to go to that academy and start looking? ”
"Gryffindor!" Reese thought for a moment, and she seemed to think that the adventurous character of the guy she was looking for was more prominent than his talent, and then she chose Gryffindor.
"Gryffindor!"
Got a very beautiful schoolgirl, and some of the Gryffindor boys cheered enthusiastically. Although Reese has also been studying since the first grade, at the age of thirteen, she has already shown some rudiments of beautiful embryos, which has attracted the attention of many senior students.
After a round of applause from the last student house, Dumbledore began his speech before the opening party.
In addition to expressing his continued joy at the start of the new semester for his students, Dumbledore introduced the professors to the first-year students, and then introduced the new professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts to all the students-
"Professor Gilderoy Lockhart!"
Gilderoy Lockhart stood up, still in the same way he faced the fans, with a big smile on his face, and put on a very coquettish pose for all the students. Many students who were confused by Lockhart's bestsellers who didn't know the truth obviously bought Lockhart's set and gave him the warmest applause, including Hermione. But there was a chill in the professorship, looking at Snape's mocking expression and the indifference on the faces of the other professors, it was obvious that they also knew a little bit about Lockhart's guy.
Then Dumbledore reiterated the precautions he had to say once a year, forbidden to cast spells in the hallways, forbidden to bring all kinds of contraband, and forbidden to go to the Forbidden Forest. However, it didn't work, and the Weasley brothers and Maple still went to the Forbidden Forest to check in and work overtime.
After saying this, Dumbledore did not immediately announce the opening of the seat, but said something else: "Remember last semester, I added a hundred points to Mr. Maple, and I need to give you an explanation for this, and now is the moment when the answer is revealed." ”
"Before I do that, I need to tell you the sad news that just last semester, three poor unicorns were brutally murdered."
Dumbledore paused, gave everyone a burst of indignation, and then raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.
"And it was after learning about the tragic fate of these unicorns that Maple came up with an initiative, and we completed a psychic contract based on his vision."
"On the premise that both parties are completely fair and willing, let the unicorn and the wizard sign a psychic contract. When the contract is made, the wizard can use the contract magic to summon the unicorn from the dangerous place to his side if he senses that the unicorn is in danger through the contract. Of course, if you have enough mana, you can also come to the unicorn through a contract and fight the enemies who hurt it. ”
"Of course, while the wizard provides protection to the unicorn, the good unicorn gives the good wizard something in return. Their light power heals wizards and helps them break some evil curses. ”
"After months of research, we have finally perfected the magic of the psychic contract. Moreover, the unicorns, for their part, also recognized Mr. Maple's initiative. Just this term, and soon after, you will witness for yourself the ritual of finding psychic companions for unicorns at Hogwarts, along with members of the Ministry of Magic and the Wizengamot. ”
"Professor, can we also participate in the selection of unicorn psychic partners?" The Weasley brothers couldn't help but ask, and the Great Hall fell silent for a moment, and all the students stared at Dumbledore, hoping to get a satisfactory answer from him.
"Of course you can, Maple has earned you the right to do this!" As soon as Dumbledore finished speaking, the entire auditorium instantly heard cheers that seemed to explode.
"You say, is Maple worth the extra 100 points?" Dumbledore said with a smile.
"Of course it's worth it, he should add more than two hundred points!" Fred shouted, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw agreed, and even Slytherin made a rare non-objection.
"Maple! Maple! With Gryffindor taking the lead, most of the students in the auditorium cheered for Maple, and the heat wave after wave was so excited that they even ignored the opening party for a while.
"Unicorns are very kind and pure creatures, and if you want to be recognized by them, you must show them your kindness and determination to protect them." Dumbledore only mentioned it, but did not bother the students, and did not say another important point of the contract unicorn, that is, the ability to protect the unicorn. If the owner of the contract is not strong enough, the unicorn might as well continue to live in seclusion. But it is clear that most of the students at Hogwarts are completely unqualified. It's just that Dumbledore kept it under his control, and didn't bother them at this moment when they were still dreaming and cheering.
And there is another important point that Dumbledore didn't say, that is, this time only five unicorns will sign psychic contracts with wizards. The quality of the contract, whether the contract can provide the unicorn with more security, the unicorn also needs to verify it before continuing the psychic contract, instead of recklessly going up directly to the whole race.
Amid the cheers of the students, Dumbledore called the table open.
Then all the empty plates were immediately filled with food, and all the students were eating the food while enthusiastically discussing the unicorn, and all the students were eager to be one of the chosen ones by the unicorn.
It's just that in this hot atmosphere, Snape is still unsociable and indifferent, maybe he is just his personality, not unhappy. But the other man had a really bad face, and he was Professor Lockhart, the new teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Finally, after receiving the enthusiastic cheers of the students, Lockhart swept away the previous gloom and became happy. But then the psychic contract of what Rausch drew all the attention of the students, and now the students were excitedly discussing the unicorn, who remembered Professor Lockhart.
Maple didn't show the same excitement as other wizards about the unicorn's psychic contract, and the lively atmosphere of the students just now only allowed Maple to get a few points of Xueba, which was not as much as a fraction of the Xueba's value obtained by the way he entered the school when he entered the school.
If it weren't for the fact that at the same time, no matter how many people around him were stimulated by Maple's aura of Xueba, Meiple would only receive a little Xueba value, just that just now, he would be able to harvest thousands of Xueba values, the setting of the system!
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